Gateways July update – going beyond Power BI

Back in February, we announced General Availability of Power BI enterprise gateway, which enabled centralized and IT-managed access to on-premises data sources. Since then, we have continued to improve on the initial release, and have added numerous data sources and connectivity choices to on-premises systems.

The On-premises data gateway offers feature parity with the existing Power BI gateway for enterprise use and we plan to continue to add additional capabilities to make it easier for IT administrators to manage and control on-premises data connectivity.

What does this mean for current Power BI gateway users

The existing on-premises data connections will continue to work within Power BI.

The On-premises data gateway replaces the Power BI gateway for enterprise use (Enterprise gateway). With this month’s release you can upgrade your existing installation to the on-premises data gateway, giving you the ability to connect PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Azure Logic Apps to on-premises data sources (in addition to Power BI).

What does this mean for Personal gateway users?

The Power BI personal gateway will continue to work and can only be used to create on-premises data connectivity for Power BI.

Single installation file for On-premises data gateway and Power BI gateway for personal use

With the release of the data gateway we combined both gateway installation experiences into one single installation file. During the installation process you can select which gateway you’d like to install.